According to Oprah's press release, "Armstrong will address the alleged doping scandal, years of accusations of cheating, and charges of lying about the use of performance-enhancing drugs throughout his storied cycling career."

For what it's worth, I've spelled out what I'd like to hear in this interview below. But first, some background.

I was a huge Lance Armstrong fan. He was one of my heroes. The come-back-from-cancer-and-then-win-seven-Tours thing was just mind-bogglingly impressive and inspiring. As was Lance's charity work.

In the early days of the doping scandal, I didn't care so much about it: To the extent that I thought about it, I assumed that everyone in the sport did it, and that you had to do it if you wanted to compete. Over the years, as more and more of the evidence came out, I just wanted to know the truth. I wanted to know whether it was even possible for a clean racer to compete against dozens of doped-up racers and still kick their asses year after year. I hoped that it was possible. How can you not hope stories like that are possible? And, for a while, because of Lance's fervent and furious denials, the answer to that question seemed to be "maybe."

(Now, it's clear that the answer is obviously "no.")

As time went on, and more and more of Lance's former teammates came forward and did the brave, bold, and right thing (tell the truth), I admired them for that. And, as Lance Armstrong himself greeted these confessions with more denials and vicious attacks, I gradually lost respect for him. Cycling is a team sport, and Armstrong never would have won those races without the work of his teammates. And for him to come out and trash them for doing nothing more than telling the truth seemed unbelievably selfish and mean.

As I think about Lance Armstrong now, in fact, I realize that I'm less bothered by the doping than I am by his lying and trashing of his former teammates.

I certainly don't condone the doping--it was cheating, and it hurt everyone who didn't dope (most of whom weren't in the peloton, because they couldn't compete)--but I understand it. When everyone you're competing against is doping, I imagine that it's easy to rationalize that doping is just part of the sport.

But Armstrong didn't have to lie about it repeatedly.

And he didn't have to trash his former teammates for telling the truth and try to destroy their reputations and careers.

I will be looking to hear the full doping story, yes. And I will be hoping that Armstrong takes full responsibility for the decisions he made while doing it--including basically insisting that his teammates do it, according to the USADA's allegations.

But mostly I will be curious to see whether Armstrong 1) apologizes for lying and trashing his teammates and associates, and 2) appears genuinely sorry about doing it.

Because until he does both of those things, I won't really feel like Lance Armstrong has learned anything. And I certainly won't see any reason to root for him again.

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Henry, this man is a pathalogical liar and cheat. He does not deserve the attention that you give him. Whatever he SAYS, it is unlikely that he has changed in any material way. He will say whatever he thinks is most beneficial to himself, whether it's the truth, or - most likely - not.

If he was really a reformed man, he would give this interview to David Walsh, the journalist who worked over many years to expose Armstrong, and who Armstrong tried to ruin. Walsh would have some real questions for him.